The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
Ex-senator conkIing at the Late
Gen. Logan's Funeral Services.
Congress to Begin Active Work Again
Tomorrow
The New Years White House Recep-
ton a Brilliant Affair.
President Cleveland Now Steadily
Gaining in Health.
Especial to the Press

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-The man who at
tracted the most attention from the lockers
on in the galleries, when the funeral process
sion of Senator Logan filed into the Senate
chamber on Friday last was ex-senator Ros-
coe Conkling of New York. Tall erect,
with large and shapely head, his hair white
with the SHOWS of many winters, parted
high and brushed back from a lofty fore
head, his beard also white, trimmed to a
point in the manner so well known by his
photographer, he was the most striking fea-
ture in the procession. His feelings as he
entered the chamber, once the scene Of his
labors, his triumphs, and finally of his de-
feat, must have been intense. From the day
in the early summer of 1881, when he shook
tn dust of the chamber from his feet in dis
gust, and left, to seek in New York vindica-
tion Of his course at the hands Of his con-
stituents, until, side by side with Gen. Sher-
man, he entered it as an honorary pail
bearer of an old associate and friend, he had
never set foot within the Senate wing of the
Capitol The nearest he had approached
thereto was to the Supreme Court room,
which is in the old Capitol, nearest to the
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would go throu gh the Senate entrance, al
though that was the most direct way there.
His appearance as he entered the chamber
indicated that he appreciated the situation
fully. His face was pale, but his head was
erect, and he walked with that "lordly air.
which so long ago won for him the title Of
Lord Roscoe" The ex-senator is fire.
quent visitor to Washington, as he has nu-
merous cases before Supreme Court. He al
ways stops at John Chamberlain's hotel and
restaurant, and seems to be enjoying life to
the utmost. His practice is very large, and
there is little probability that he will ever
re-enter political life as an active factor.
Congressional Business.
Congress will resume its labors on Tues
day, with fifty-one working days only re-
naming in which to accomplish the work
before it. The question is whether they will
be able to do in these ffty-one days any Of
the things which out to be done, and which
they were not able to do in nearly nine
months of fruitless toll last session.
The prominent member on either side of
the House who is willing to predict that any
thing of Importance will be done more than
the regular routine business, has yet to be
found
On the question of the reduction Of the
revenue, the majority of the House are too
hopelessly divided for any action to be looked
for from them, and it is feared that the oppo-
nents of the Morrison bill, who believe that
some measure for reducing the surplus ought
to pass, are united only in their disbelief
that the Morrison bill is not the correct way
to do it, and that any scheme originating on
their side of the chamber would split them
up as badly as the Randall and Morrison
factions are on the other side. The prophets
therefore, who predict that nothing will be
done are very numerous, and seem to have
the strongest kind of foundation for their
belief,